fagging
verb
Meaning
- (used mainly in passive form) To make exhausted, tired out.
- To droop; to tire.
- For a younger student to act as a servant for senior students in many British boarding schools.
- To have (a younger student) act as a servant in this way.
- To work hard, especially on menial chores.
- The system in boarding schools whereby younger students acted as servants for older students.
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